Klimkin, Zannier discuss strengthening OSCE SMM security component in Ukraine

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin met with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg on December 8.

This is reported by the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.

"The parties discussed possibilities of strengthening security component of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in order to ensure effective monitoring and verification of implementation of the Minsk agreements," the statement reads.

Klimkin stressed the need for continuous SMM monitoring on the line of separation and presence of the monitors on to the uncontrolled area of the Ukrainian-Russian border in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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